Your Right to Know

New Albany has its first union contract with eight service-department workers who have joined
United Steelworkers Local 9110.

The three-year contract was approved by union members in November and by the New Albany City
Council on Dec. 3. It includes a 2.5 percent pay increase for employees in 2014, a 2 percent
increase in 2015 and a 1.5 percent increase in 2016.

City officials included about $2 million in the 2014 budget for salaries and related expenses
for all service-department employees, but Finance Director Chad Fuller said that does not include
increases associated with the new union contract.

The city council will have to approve an appropriations ordinance in 2014 to cover the
increases, he said.

The contract includes a provision for workers to receive a one-time payment of $1,000 and
receive a 3 percent increase for November and December 2013.